The history of the pen frame

The specific generation of the age is not available, but from the Southern Liang (502-556) Wu Jun (469-520) made the "Pen Grid Fugue": "the Gui tree in the mountains ...... cut its pieces, this pen grid" to see, there have been more than 1,500 years of History. Pen frame due to different styles, more than one nickname. Such as pen mountain, because of the multi-peak mountain shape and name, modeling is generally five peaks, the highest peak, the two sides of the side peaks gradually followed by a flat bottom. To the late Ming dynasty porcelain products more. Pen bed, its horizontal such as bed and name. Ming Tulong "stationery elegant editing - pen bed": "the system of pen bed, the line is very little. There are ancient gilt, six or seven inches long, two inches high, two inches wide, decorated as a rack, can lie pen four vectors. This is the style, with rosewood for the ebony, but also good". Another pen pillow, pen hanging and so on. Pen holder material has porcelain, crystal, jade, alabaster, copper, iron, wood and so on. Before the North and South Dynasties, the pen frame heirloom products have not been found, so the specific face is not very clear, but from the literature, when the mountain-shaped. "If the nine doubts of the dispute out," the material when the wood. Tang dynasty pen holder handed down is extremely rare, but from the literature, at this time the pen holder has become a permanent thing, such as du fu poem: "pen holder dip window rain, bookmarks reflect gap twilight". Lu Guimeng poem: "since the smoke from the Xia An pen frame, only open the seal check test sand bed". Material is no longer limited to wood, diversified, such as Luo Yin poem: "coral pen shelf real pearl crawl, and Chen Wang had a few poems".

"Kaiyuan tianbao remains": "Bachelor Su Ting page, there is a brocade pattern of flowers and stones, openwork for the pen holder". Unfortunately the shape of the pen holder is not mentioned. Song dynasty pen holder heirlooms and excavations more, more diverse materials, Song Zhou Mi "cloud smoke over the eyes of the record" has "ancient jade pen grid", "Song taolu class copy" has "copper and green pen grid". Archaeological excavations have shadow celadon pen grid water note, lacquer pen grid, crystal pen grid and jade pen grid. The shape of the Song Dynasty pen frame has the following three kinds: a narrow rectangle, there are several round concave holes used to shelve the pen; a narrow rectangle, there are several round holes and a rectangular concave holes, rectangular concave holes used to put the ink; a mountain shape, that is, the Song Lu Yinglong, "Idle Window": "the peaks are listed in the pen frame". And this form of brush holder is most common, the peaks or steep, or gentle, the peaks are as few as five, as many as twenty. Yuan dynasty pen holder materials such as copper, porcelain, stone, etc., the shape of the mountain, the Song dynasty, the first two styles have been missing. Mountain-shaped pen holder peaks than the Song dynasty significantly reduced, generally four or five peaks. Ming Dynasty pen is an indispensable thing in the room, which from the Ming Dynasty literati writings more "Penge" entry can be seen, such as high 溓 "Yan leisure and enjoyment of the paper", Tu Long "Wen Fang utensils paper", Wen Zhenhengheng "long things," and so on. The material "coral, agate, crystal, carved rhinoceros", porcelain, jade, wood and so on. The shape of the "jade for the mountain-shaped ...... has a copper chi dragon undulating for the grid". The most people of the time is "an old tree roots, coiled Wanzhu, the length of seven inches, like a line of dragons, scales and horns, claws and teeth are fully equipped, Mo Lang, such as jade, this bearing the natural pen frame" of the artifacts without axe cuts. Mountain-shaped pen holder for the mainstream of the Ming dynasty, the number of peaks is generally but five peaks. Qing Dynasty pen holder is better than the Ming Dynasty, the material has jade, alabaster, crystal, copper, wood, enamel, ivory and so on. The most valuable natural things, such as the Qianlong emperor for the poem "antler long eight fork old, metamorphosis to go not to stay ...... YaYi for the rack pen, hair YingBen with the tour" of the antler pen holder. Qing Dynasty pen holder from the shape can be divided into the traditional mountain shape, the peak is more stout, more openwork carving, painting and other decorations; Elephant and Castle shape, in the shape of plants and animals undulating pen; natural objects, such as the antlers mentioned earlier.